How can Solaris 8 be re-installed on a Sun Box? I 'inherited' two sun boxes, one with Solaris 5.5.1 and the other with Solaris 8. The problem is that I don't have login information for either one. Any pointers is appreciated!

Not too sure on your question! I take it that you have the Solaris 8 CD's. And the SUN boxes have CD-ROM drives. If you want to break in and edit the password then you need to boot up from CD-ROM. OK boot cdrom once up you need to use a window to mount the root partition so you can edit the /etc/passwd file. you may need to creat a mount point. The root partition is usally /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 > mkdir /tmp/mntpnt > mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /tmp/mntpnt if not try c0t0d0s1 > cd /tmp/mntpnt/etc > vi passwd delete all the jargon between the two colons after the user name in my example it would be $1$e3UqsDKp$gcpDPIR1kh0F root:$1$e3UqsDKp$gcpDPIR1kh0F/dkicPhnZ/:0:0:r oot:/root:/bin/bash save the file, reboot the system and you should be able to log on as root without a password. OTHERWISE if you just want to reinstall Solaris just boot of the CD as mentioned above and follow the instructions for an initial install. This of course will delete everything on the HD Hope this is what you were after.